Being overweight

I have been overweight for the last 15 years of my life, but I don't ever remember not feeling fat. Normally I don't think about it and I can go through life feeling like I am generally well accepted in public and social situations but every once in awhile I am affronted by the hostility of someone who is so ignorant as to hate me for being fat and this kind of prejudice comes at all kinds of educational levels. I know it's not healthy or ideal, but honestly my fat is working for me right now and as soon as I find another way to cope, trust me I will, but where do people get off thinking that it's okay to comment on my body size. I don't comment on your nose or freckles or acne or lack of luster in your hair, or the way your eyebrows are as furry as bert from sesame street, so what makes you think it's okay to just come out and insult me. Do you think I don't know that I'm fat? Do you think you can insult me into compliance with the rest of societies body standards? I'm sorry to tell you that it just doesn't work that way. Shame and humiliation are not motivators for change. Yes, maybe I spoke of physical characteristics that are involuntary in others and my fat is indicative of my choice of life, but still you don't have a right to comment on it unless I ask your opinion, which trust me, I won't!! I would never bark like a dog at some guy I thought was particularly unappealing so don't yell "sooey" at me or quietly ask the guy next to you if he smells bacon because it's just rude and ignorant and hateful. If my looks offend you, just don't look and walk away.